Gary Harsman (foreground) was Junior Holstein Day. Phoebe Ruth
the first place showman and Corinna (far left) and John Stump, helpers at
Moyer placed first in fitting during the program, look on.
the recently held Berks County
Some of the winners of the Berks County Junior
Holstein Day are (from left): Penny Bicksler, Ist -
fitting; David Schantz, helper; Helen Seidel Ist -
showing and Mark Wicks, older member.
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Consider the little seeds
Today, aa in countless past
generations, Man depends
more on the little seeds of the
world for food, clothing, and
shelter than any other source
of the items we need to
sustain life.
As you give that some
thought, consider, too, that
almost everything with any
real lasting importance to
Man is connected, in one way
or another, with the seeds of
the world. So many things
come from seeds.
For example, consider the
many wooden items around
you which are direct results
of tree seeds. Consider your
cotton cloth items, and the
host of other products that
come from cotton seeds.
Consider, too, all the
products grown from seeds
of corn, wheat, soybeans,
rice, and the other cereal
plants around the world.
Think about the countless
seeds that once grew into
plants, eons before Man ever
walked this earth. Ancient
plants that grew and fell with
the massive reptiles that fed
upon them. Through nature’s
time and pressure they were
turned into the fossil fuels we
use today to make our life
more comfortable, more
colorful, and more liveable.
Consider a glass of milk.
The cow that produced the
milk m her body could not
have done so without the feed
the fanner provided for her,
be it the seed-produced
grasses of a pasture, or a
mixture of seed-produced
corn and oats. The very
same thing could be said, of
course, for the other farm
animal products pork
chops, steaks, hamburger,
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chops, and other foods.
Consider your total lawn.
Most of the living things that
you see around the outside of
your home either grow from,
or depend on the products of
seed-produced plants. This
includes the multicolored
birds that flutter into, fly
over, or dart past your lawn.
Your pet, be it cat or dog,
lying in the backyard sun, is
as dependent on seed
products as you are, since
most pet foods come from
byproducts of seed-produced
cereal or seed-dependent
meat sources. Your
vegetable garden and
flowers, the bushes, and the
trees are all seed related.
For as long as the sun has
beamed down on this earth,
the seeds of the world have
shown a remarkable ability
to adapt to extremes. On the
tundra of the cold north, with
its lengthy and deep cover of
snow and ice, lie little seeds
which spring up into
beautiful wildflowers during
the brief moments of the
warmer weeks of the year.
In the pressure-cooker heat
of the earth’s desert sands,
seeds lie dormant for years
waiting for that brief but
glorious moment when a
freak rain springs them into
life.
Living between these
geographic extremes, Man
has constantly used the
natural adaptability of seeds
for his own ends. Over the
years, Man has made such
dramatic changes in seed
produced plants that it is
often impossible to compare
new plants of today with
fossilized remnants of the
original parent plant lines.
Man-induced changes in
plants and seeds sometimes
are of a very minute nature.
A plant breeder may well
spend months or years
working with a single kind of
plant striving through cross
pollination and other
methods to create one minor
change in the germ plasm of
a variety. When he fails, it’s
a weed to him, but when he
succeeds, it is an
achievement of consequence
for all of us.
A plant breeder may just
as well have a number of
things he wants to ac
complish in his work. He
may seek the creation of the
world’s smallest blooming
marigold, while he also
seeks the world’s largest
single sunflower. Or, he may
strive for new flower colors
in blooms that have never
been seen before.
With farm crops, research
workers often try to increase
a plant’s resistance to
predators and diseases to
protect the plant naturally,
which also gives us a greater
yield from the plant at
harvest. Sometimes their
work is pointed more to a
particular part of a plant,
such as a new peanut variety
which produces slightly
more oil when the nut is
processed.
Whatever the plant
breeder is striving for, his
work consumes a great deal
of his time and energy. He
keeps meticulous and
methodical records for each
step he has taken as well as
each result he has achieved.
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